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Boston bombing suspect now in prison hospital

Men pray at the Islamic Society of Boston in Cambridge, Mass. Suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev occasionally attended the mosque.

View LargerMusa Sadulayev | Associated PressThe mother of the two Boston bombing suspects, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, left, speaks at a news conference in Russia. “I’ve never been mixed up in any criminal intentions, especially any linked to terrorism,” she said.

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BOSTON — Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhohkar Tsarnaev was moved from a hospital to a
federal prison medical center, while FBI agents searched for evidence yesterday in a landfill near
the college he was attending.

Tsarnaev, 19, was taken from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he was recovering from
a gunshot wound in the throat and other injuries suffered during a getaway attempt, and transferred
to Federal Medical Center Devens, about 40 miles from Boston, the U.S. Marshals Service said. The
facility, at a former Army base, treats federal prisoners.

FBI agents picked through the landfill near the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where
Tsarnaev was a sophomore. FBI spokesman Jim Martin would not say what investigators were looking
for.

An aerial photo in yesterday’s
Boston Globe showed a line of more than 20 investigators, all dressed in white overalls
and yellow boots, picking over the garbage with shovels or rakes.

U.S. officials, meanwhile, said that the bombing suspects’ mother had been added to a federal
terrorism database about 18 months before the deadly attack — a disclosure that deepens the mystery
around the Tsarnaev family and marks the first time that American authorities have acknowledged
that Zubeidat Tsarnaeva was under investigation before the tragedy.

The news is certain to fuel questions about whether the Obama administration missed
opportunities to thwart the April 15 bombing, which killed three people and wounded more than
260.

Tsarnaev is charged with joining with his older brother, now dead, in setting off the
shrapnel-packed pressure-cooker bombs. The brothers are ethnic Chechens from Russia who came to the
United States about a decade ago with their parents. Investigators have said it appears that the
brothers were angry about the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Two government officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to
speak publicly about the investigation, said the CIA had Zubeidat Tsarnaeva’s name added to the
terror database along with that of her son Tamerlan Tsarnaev after Russia contacted the agency in
2011 with concerns that the two were religious militants.

About six months earlier, the FBI investigated mother and son, also at Russia’s request, one of
the officials said. The FBI found no ties to terrorism. Previously, U.S. officials had said only
that the FBI investigated Tamerlan.

In an interview from Russia, Tsarnaeva said yesterday that she has never been linked to
terrorism.

“It’s all lies and hypocrisy,” she said from Dagestan. “I’m sick and tired of all this nonsense
that they make up about me and my children. People know me as a regular person, and I’ve never been
mixed up in any criminal intentions, especially any linked to terrorism.”

Tsarnaeva faces shoplifting charges in the U.S. related to the 2012 theft of more than $1,624 in
women’s clothing from a Lord & Taylor department store in Natick, Mass.

This week, she said she has been assured by lawyers that she would not be arrested if she
traveled to the United States, but she said she was still deciding whether to go. The suspects’
father, Anzor Tsarnaev, said that he would leave Russia soon for the United States to visit one son
and lay the other to rest. Yesterday, Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s body remained with the office of
Massachusetts’ chief medical examiner, and it had not been claimed. Meanwhile, New York’s police
commissioner said the FBI was too slow to inform the city that the Boston Marathon suspects had
been planning to bomb Times Square days after the attack at the race.

Federal investigators learned about the short-lived scheme from a hospitalized Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
during a bedside interrogation that began Sunday night and extended into Monday morning, officials
said. The information didn’t reach the New York Police Department until Wednesday night.

“We did express our concerns over the lag,” Commissioner Raymond Kelly said. Kelly and Mayor
Michael Bloomberg announced the findings on Thursday.